Congratulations to the Directors, Miss Brandy and Lover for a well run game, and a unique bit of fun here in AChat land. Congratulations to all the participants, too... your involvement and enthusiasm made the game a lot of fun and a challenge to compete in.
Now that the game is finished, we should have a review of the game. A critique if you will, on the things we noticed that could be changed or even somethings that could be added to the game.
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One thing that I noticed and took advantage of... When the correct answer is sent in to the Directors, the Director's reply should only be to the individual who sent in the riddle's answer. I found all I had to do was sit and wait for the reply to the correct answer, then send in mine to "second" the answer.
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Miss Stone and I had a discussion about making a change to the scoring system, and we came up with something like this: We could use the same idea of the speed of the correct answers, and which team answers first, but split the answers. The first to answer scores certain amount of points, and the corresponding "second" answer from the same team scores a certain amount of points. Each based on the place the answers come to the Directors.
Something like this:
5 points for the first correct answer
4 points for second
3 for third
2 for fourth
1 for fifth
5 for the first "second" or corresponding correct answer from a team
4 for the second "second" corresponding answer
3 for the third "ditto"
2 for the fourth "ditto"
1 for the fifth "ditto"
then add them together for the team total.
Example with five teams:Team A: (1 & 3) sends in the first correct answer and the third corresponding "second" answer for a team total of
8 points.
Team B: (2 & 5) sends in the second correct "first" answer for 4 points and the fifth corresponding "second" answer for a team total of
5 points.
Team C: (3 & 4) sends in the third correct "first" answer and the fourth corresponding "second" answer for a team total of
5 points.
Team D: (4 & 2) sends in the fourth correct "first" answer and the second corresponding "second" answer for a team total of
6 points.
Team E: (5 & 1) sends in the fifth correct "first" answer and the first corresponding "second" answer for a team total of
5 points.
So the most points a team can score is 10 and the least amount is 2. Of course this will mean a little more work for the Directors of the contest.
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For an added twist to the anagrams... it might be fun to allow the person who is posting the word for gathering the letters to use with the Anagram, to scramble the word.
For example: In my case, I had three words. 3 RAGE ... MAG_C and WON_ER.
I could have scrambled them something like this:
GEAR (needs to be unscrambled)
CAG_M (needs to be unscrambled)
WRO_NE (needs to be unscrambled)
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